MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at
the parish of Saint George in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty fifth Day of July in the twenty second Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Ralph Culbert< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Benjamin Sayer< no role > , William Dunpsey< no role > , William McDowell< no role > , Thomas Martin< no role > , George
Bell, William East< no role > , Solomon Williams< no role > , Jasper Bacon< no role > , Edward Knight< no role > , Thomas
East, Richard Grant< no role > , William Hartley< no role > , and Robert Church< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Ralph Culbert< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Ralph Culbert on the Nineteenth Day
of July in the year aforesaid being on The Gunnell of a Barge to the Jurors aforesaid
unknown then lying in The River Thames at Stone Stairs in The Hamlet of Ratcliff
in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County aforesaid And being endeavouring
to take hold of a Rope in the said Lighter It so happened That he the said Ralph Culbert then
and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Gunnell of the Barge aforesaid into
The River aforesaid and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned
[..] Suffocation and Drowning he the said [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Benjamin Sayer< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Reft of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Benjamin Sayer< no role > [mark] Foreman